Introduction

Marco Berlinguer:

"The free culture movements comprise a wide range of experiences
mainly emerging around the internet and the digital revolution.
They have generally developed independently, but they are loosely
aligned and show a mutually reinforcing dynamism – a ‘viral
spiral’, as David Bollier terms it.

All these movements emerged as practical and cultural
critiques of the aggressive attempts by corporations, aided by
Northern governments, to extend intellectual property rights
to knowledge, culture, information, communication and even
organisms and data. The process has been described as ‘the
second enclosures movement’ – the first being the enclosing of
common land and turning it into private property in late and
post-medieval England.

Following Felix Stalder, we can group these movements into
three different clusters:

Citations

On P2P dialogue across the political spectrum

"If anything, the Internet has allowed various decentralist traditions to cross-pollinate and reach a mainstream audience to a far larger extent than could have been imagined in the mid-90s. There are many online venues where mutualists, agrarians, distributists, Georgists, social crediters, Catholic Workers, Rothbardians and Greens compare their views, amiably for the most part, and find out how much they have in common."